home plate definition

Baseball A base, generally comprising a tough rubber slab, at one of many corners of a diamond at which a batter stands when hitting and which a base runner must eventually touch in order to score.

an appartment, pentagonal, plastic object put on center of the batter's package, which is used as a basis for judging pitched attacks and balls, together with touching that by a runner advancing from or past third base scores a run.

See Home base, under Home.

(baseball) base composed of a rubber slab where in fact the batter appears; it should be moved by a base runner to be able to score